South Elmsall: what to know before moving day
The centre sits on the B6422 as Barnsley Road and Doncaster Road, with the post office, the market, the library and the bus station beside the railway station. Westfield Lane leads to Frickley Athletic's ground, the Frickley Colliery Welfare cricket field and Frickley Country Park, opened in 2009 on the reclaimed pit site. The town mixes stone and brick buildings, because it grew fast from a farming settlement once the collieries were sunk.
Near High Street, OpenStreetMap shows a cluster of streets named from the Arthurian legends, among them Camelot Way, Excalibur Drive, Guinevere Drive, Merlin Close, Galahad Way and Pendragon Place. Closer to the station are Eric Street, Edna Street, Kenyon Street and Brookside Terrace. Dale Lane Industrial Estate, with its distribution warehouses, is on the edge of town by the A638.
How the van gets to South Elmsall
Minsthorpe Lane, the B6474, links the town with the A638 at a roundabout, and the A638 runs north-west to Wakefield and on to Bradford; the M62 to Wakefield is the other way over. Inside South Elmsall, High Street carries the B6474 and Barnsley Road the B6422.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 50 to 60 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Also covered around South Elmsall
Moorthorpe, Minsthorpe, Common End, Elm Estate, Hill Estate, Priory Estate, Shinwell, Thorpe Gate Estate, Wrangbrook.
Services for South Elmsall
Each service below links to its Normanton page, which covers how the job works in and around Normanton.
South Elmsall: questions before you book
Which parish is Moorthorpe in, if it runs into South Elmsall?
South Kirkby's. Moorthorpe shares a civil parish and town council with South Kirkby, although the built-up area runs together with South Elmsall and the listed war memorial names both. Moorthorpe and South Elmsall stations are less than a mile apart.
Areas near South Elmsall we cover
These places have their own pages, with local detail and how the van gets there.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF9 2RJ is in the South Elmsall & South Kirkby ward of Wakefield, parish: South Elmsall
- South Elmsall (Wikipedia): town and civil parish east of Hemsworth, stone and brick buildings, Frickley Colliery closed 1993, Frickley Country Park 2009, market of about 105 stalls, Dale Lane Industrial Estate, Minsthorpe Community College, station and bus station
- Frickley Colliery (Wikipedia): Westfield Lane stadium backing onto the former colliery, country park on the site
- South Elmsall railway station (Wikipedia): Wakefield Line, less than a mile from Moorthorpe station
- Listed buildings in South Elmsall (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): South Elmsall and Moorthorpe War Memorial, 1923
- A638 road (Wikipedia): Bradford to Wakefield and Doncaster; roundabout with Minsthorpe Lane (B6474)
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): B6422 Barnsley Road and Doncaster Road, B6474 High Street and Mill Lane, Minsthorpe Lane, post office, market, library, bus station, station, Westfield Lane, Frickley AFC, cricket ground, Frickley Country Park, Camelot Way, Excalibur Drive, Guinevere Drive, Merlin Close, Galahad Way, Pendragon Place, Eric Street, Edna Street, Kenyon Street, Brookside Terrace
- postcodes.io reverse lookup at the OS Open Names point for Common End (listed under 'Also covered'): nearest postcode WF9 2JJ, South Elmsall & South Kirkby ward, Wakefield
- postcodes.io reverse lookup at the OS Open Names point for Elm Estate (listed under 'Also covered'): nearest postcode WF9 2QW, South Elmsall & South Kirkby ward, Wakefield
- postcodes.io reverse lookup at the OS Open Names point for Hill Estate (listed under 'Also covered'): nearest postcode WF9 1HU, Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton ward, Wakefield
- postcodes.io reverse lookup at the OS Open Names point for Priory Estate (listed under 'Also covered'): nearest postcode WF9 2DA, South Elmsall & South Kirkby ward, Wakefield
- postcodes.io reverse lookup at the OS Open Names point for Shinwell (listed under 'Also covered'): nearest postcode WF9 1HA, Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton ward, Wakefield
- postcodes.io reverse lookup at the OS Open Names point for Thorpe Gate Estate (listed under 'Also covered'): nearest postcode WF9 1AB, Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton ward, Wakefield
- postcodes.io reverse lookup at the OS Open Names point for Wrangbrook (listed under 'Also covered'): nearest postcode WF9 1LN, Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton ward, Wakefield